Re: Help getting started debugging Emacs on macOS Sierra

[Itai Berli <itai.berli@gmail.com>]

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Thanks, Paul. Do you use macOS? I read that Macs don't use gdb natively,
but instead an alternative called LLVM. At any rate, gdb is not installed
on my system. I can download and install it, but I'm a little hesitant, as
I'm afraid it might clash with LLVM.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Itai Berli wrote:
>
>> I'll appreciate it if someone can walk me through the steps needed to get
>> up and running....
>>
>
> All the scripts finished successfully. In the end I was able to start the
>> Emacs GUI from the command line by running
>>
>> open nextstep/Emacs.app
>>>
>>
> You've gotten up and running, so it sounds like all you need to do is to
> learn how to debug.
>
> I normally use gdb under Emacs to debug Emacs. To do that, I run Emacs in
> the source directory, type the command "M-x gud-gdb RET bootstrap-emacs
> RET" to get GDB running on a subsidiary instance of Emacs, type the GDB
> command "b Fexpand_file_name" to plant a breakpoint in (say)
> Fexpand_file_name, and then type the GDB command "r" to run the Emacs being
> debugged.
>

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